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North Norfolk - Coggle Diagram
North Norfolk
Human uses
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Tourism is popular because of the large beaches and lack of light pollution as well as the area being an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Tourists often come to visit Blakeney Spit as it is home to seals.
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Solar panels have been built at Holkham as a pro-active response to the rise in sea levels from climate change. The large, flat expanse is efficient for solar power production.
Landscape features
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Wide, sandy beach backed by sand dunes at Holkham with a shallow seabed allowing sand to dry out and be blown onshore
Low cliffs at Hunstanton, Sheringham and Cromer. Harder chalk outcrops protrude from the land
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Human Sea Defences
Rip-rap barriers at Sherringham - Large rocks placed in front of cliffs to spread out waves and reduce wave energy from the cliff.
Sea wall at Cromer - Concrete walls to reflect and absorb wave energy in front of settlements to reduce erosion
Gabions at Hunstanton - Wire cages filled with stones that absorb the wave energy and trap sand and sediment to protect and add sand dunes.
Groynes at Wells-next-to-Sea - Wooden barriers placed at a right angle to the coastline along beaches to trap sediment and prevent long-shore drift. This keeps the large, sandy beaches for tourists,
Boardwalks built on Holkam - Sand dunes to prevent humans disturbing the grass and eroding the developing sand dunes.
Geomorphic processes
Blakeney and Wells-next-to-Sea were flooded in January 2013 by a coastal storm surge. The low lying landscape makes these places vulnerable.
Rises in the sea level are causing the Stiffkey salt marsh to build up providing a natural sea defence.
The coastal flooding storm surges can cause sand dunes to disappear overnight such as in Wells-next-to-Sea in 2013.
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